Support for swinging or pendent scaffolds



(No Model.) v J. T. CHURCHILL.

SUPPORT FOR SWINGING. 0R PENDANT SGAFFOLDS. No. 288,977. Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

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JAMES T. CHURCHILL, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

SUPPORT FOR SWlNGlNG OR PENDENT SCAFFQLDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,977, dated November 2'7,

Application filed August .21, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES T. CHURCHILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Support for Swinging or Pendent Scatfolds, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a strong, light, safe, and easily-n1ovab1e swinging scaffold for the use of carpenters, painters, galvanized-cornice workers, and builders generally. They are hung from cornices or any other projections or supports where the hook can get a firm hold. To place in position for use, two or more of them are drawn up by a rope, or carried up through a building, and hung from a cornice or other support, about twelve or fifteen feet apart. The scaffold: board is placed in position by tying a rope three or four feet from each end of the board and. letting the same down at an angle of about forty-five degrees, sliding one end into the bottom of one support, thenlowering the other end and moving slightly backward into the other; or place board in position on the ground and draw up supports with ropes. The weight of two supports and a board one and a half inch thick and fourteen feet long will not ex ceed fifty-five pounds, and is easily moved by one man at each hook sliding it along the cornice. The support is designed to be used in pairs by painters, with scaffold-board twelve or fifteen feet long. By cornice-work ers and others they should be hung at intervals of twelve or fifteen feet, with scaffoldboards between, forming scaffold the entire length or width of a structure. I attain my objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents the support entire. Fig. 2 represents the notched board shown in lower part of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents board or slat for raising scafi'oldboard. Fig. 4. represents small wooden wedge seen at bottom of Fig. 1.

G G G, Fig. 1, is an acute triangular frame constructed of clear straight-grained pinewood.

A. is a flat wrought-iron hook, twisted to strengthen it at top, and is securely bolted to top of frameG GG with two threc-eighthsinch iron bolts, as shown.

B B B are wooden steps or rungs (set into edge of and secured to frame G G G with heayy screws) to come down from or go up on the roof or other support from which they hang.

G G C C, Fig. 1, are thrce-eighths-inch roundiron staples secured to frame G G G by clinching. They are used as receptacles for boards shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

D, Fig. 2, is a notched board of hard wood, three and one-half feet long by one inch thick. It is used in the two lower staples G C, Fig. 1, as a rest against the wall to prevent the scaffold from swinging in or outward from the building.

E, Fig. 3, is a hard-wood board, five feet long by one inch thick, used in upper staples C C, Fig. 1, to raise scaffold-board higher when necessary; also, to use in lower staples C C, Fig. 1, to widen scaffold by laying an extra board on each side of center scaffold-board.

F, Fig. 4, is a small wooden wedge to secure notched board 1), Fig. 2, to bottom of sup port, as shown at F in Fig. 1.

I claiin In a pendent scaffold-bracket, the combination, with the triangular frame, of the supporting-hook, the steps, and the staples, and the cross-pieces therefor, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES T. CHURCHILL.

.Vitnesses:

JOHN KENMIER, F. A. FRANKS. 

